Chapter 2196: Celestial G.o.d Six Imperial!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Yeon Gaesomun had chosen a perfect time to attack, seemingly in concert with the mysterious men attacking from under the ground.
Given how the two sides were working so well together, Yeon Gaesomun must have known about those men hiding underground.
Floating in the air, w.a.n.g Chong immediately understood what was going on, his eyes flas.h.i.+ng.
Ozmish Khagan had led his Eastern Turkic generals in drawing his attention while Yeon Gaesomun joined the experts underground in attacking him from behind.
All of this had been clearly planned out.
But w.a.n.g Chong quickly got ahold of himself.
“Hmph, laughable!”
w.a.n.g Chong coldly snorted as he made his move.
“Origin Immortal Art!”
The air rippled as a resplendent pavilion appeared, its light engulfing w.a.n.g Chong like a rising sun.
Bang!
Streams of energy rushed in from all sides, striking w.a.n.g Chong’s Trayastrimsa Heaven.
By this time, w.a.n.g Chong was completely concealed within the Trayastrimsa Heaven.
Buzz!
That majestic Stellar Energy struck w.a.n.g Chong, but it seemed to vanish into a bottomless pit. It flowed into the Trayastrimsa Heaven where it was absorbed and digested by the Origin Immortal Art.
Meanwhile, the ten-some b.l.o.o.d.y blades that had emerged from the Ksitigarbha Buddha Palm encountered the Trayastrimsa Heaven when they were still one hundred feet away from w.a.n.g Chong. They were all stopped cold, as if they had run into a steel wall.
w.a.n.g Chong had long ago cultivated his Origin Immortal Art to a masterful level. He had improved its strength to a new level, allowing him to swiftly absorb many attacks and make their energy his own.
“Not good!”
Sensing his attack vanis.h.i.+ng like a clay doll into the ocean, one of the star-crowned, black-robed elders hiding within the Ksitigarbha Buddha Palm instantly felt an ill foreboding.
w.a.n.g Chong’s cultivation level was far too high, far higher than they had estimated.
Before this operation, they had simulated many scenarios, but they had never imagined that w.a.n.g Chong would be able to singlehandedly absorb all their attacks.
What made their failure even more shocking was that they had even considered w.a.n.g Chong’s frightening power and thus utilized ten-some Stellar-piercing weapons of the Earth Sect.
These ten-some b.l.o.o.d.y blades concealed in the Ksitigarbha Buddha Palm were incredibly sharp and had slain numerous experts of the Central Plains and other countries, quite a few of whom had been specialists in condensing Stellar Energy into protective barriers. The blades’ power could make countless experts s.h.i.+ver in fear.
Not even masters who had cultivated Stellar Energy to the apex would be able to stop them.
But these precious treasures had been blocked by w.a.n.g Chong using purely his Stellar Energy.
Those ten-some blades hadn’t even been able to penetrate half an inch into his Stellar Energy.
“Withdraw!” The leading Earth Sect expert called out an order to retreat.
w.a.n.g Chong was far too powerful, even more powerful than when he had defeated Khatabah in the war of the northwest. This was someone that they simply couldn’t deal with.
“You want to leave? Can you?” A mocking voice came from above.
Just when that Earth Sect expert was prepared to use his Earth Movement technique to flee, w.a.n.g Chong thrust out a palm.
Bang!
There was no skill in this. w.a.n.g Chong had merey gathered the energy absorbed by the Origin Immortal Art, added some of his own, and unleashed it.
“Ah!”
The ten-some Eastern Turkic experts of the Earth Sect were sent flying like ragdolls.
In the face of w.a.n.g Chong’s destructive torrent of Stellar Energy, their resistance was insignificant. The gap between them was like that between heaven and earth.
Thudthudthud!
Seven or eight of the Earth Sect experts simply exploded on the spot.
w.a.n.g Chong had no intention of letting them survive this strike.
“Yeon Gaesomun, go and join them!”
w.a.n.g Chong had not forgotten about Yeon Gaesomun. His right palm thrust out and unleashed a destructive torrent of energy at Yeon Gaesomun as well.
Yeon Gaesomun’s pupils constricted, instantly smelling the stench of death at his nostrils.
But the savagery in his heart had also been provoked.
“Celestial G.o.d Six Imperial, strike!”
A thunderous roar resounded through the world.
Bang!
As Yeon Gaesomun called out, a black saber deep in the depths of the sky descended like a meteor toward w.a.n.g Chong.
Bang!
Three feet away from w.a.n.g Chong’s head, the Trayastrimsa Heaven appeared and instantly blocked that bizarre black saber.
w.a.n.g Chong’s Trayastrimsa Heaven was like steel, and not even the Earth Sect’s Stellar-piercing weapons had been able to penetrate it. Yet Yeon Gaesomun’s saber had managed to penetrate half a foot into the Trayastrimsa Heaven—evidence of its incredible might!
But w.a.n.g Chong’s Trayastrimsa Heaven Stellar Energy was far thicker than half a foot. Yeon Gaesomun’s saber had still failed to break w.a.n.g Chong’s defenses.
“Celestial G.o.d Six Imperial? So this was your sixth saber!”
w.a.n.g Chong looked up at the sixth saber and softly chuckled.
Yeon Gaesomun had a divine mastery of the saber. This was something that w.a.n.g Chong had heard about long ago.
But most mystical of all was Yeon Gaesomun’s sixth saber. Few had ever seen this sixth saber, and this was w.a.n.g Chong’s first time seeing it for himself.
It was powerful and peerlessly sharp, but alas, it was still no match for him.
Bang!
A moment later, w.a.n.g Chong waved his finger, and Yeon Gaesomun’s sixth saber was drawn by some invisible energy and joined a storm of Stellar Energy in howling at Yeon Gaesomun’s face.
This saber moved so quickly that it seemed to blink out of existence. When it next appeared, it was only a few inches from Yeon Gaesomun’s face.
w.a.n.g Chong was no master of the saber, but he did know how to use a sword. The Art of G.o.d and Demon Obliteration pa.s.sed down by Su Zhengchen could only be superior, not inferior, to Yeon Gaesomun’s saber arts.
When using sword intent to control a saber, w.a.n.g Chong could exhibit a power even more frightening than Yeon Gaesomun’s.
“How could this be?”
Yeon Gaesomun’s eyes narrowed in disbelief. He had never imagined that w.a.n.g Chong would be able to seize and use his sixth saber.
Yeon Gaesomun’s sixth saber was a demonic saber with a powerful will of its own—that of a vicious beast. Anyone who carelessly touched it would not only be unable to use this demonic saber, their mind would be invaded, and the demonic saber’s will would wipe out their consciousness and seize their body.
Besides him, there was no one in Goguryeo that could use this saber, not even King Bojang.
But after one clash, w.a.n.g Chong had taken control of the saber.
And when w.a.n.g Chong attacked, Yeon Gaesomun sensed that he was in grave peril.
Bang!
In a flash of light, Yeon Gaesomun was smashed into the ground by the saber and w.a.n.g Chong’s Stellar Energy, stirring up a ma.s.sive cloud of dust.
In a few short moments, Ozmish Khagan, Yeon Gaesomun, and the Earth Sect experts had been vanquished. Not only had they failed to threaten w.a.n.g Chong, they had suffered horrendous losses from w.a.n.g Chong’s a.s.sault.
At that moment, w.a.n.g Chong seemed like a supreme G.o.d, the entire battlefield intimidated by his calm gaze.
In the face of absolute strength, all schemes were futile.
“Mm?”
Suddenly, w.a.n.g Chong raised an eyebrow as he looked down.
“Still not dead!”
A look of surprise appeared on w.a.n.g Chong’s face.
According to w.a.n.g Chong’s calculations, his palm should have had enough strength to kill all the Earth Sect experts, but while eight or nine of the ten-some experts had died, the rest, including that Earth Sect elder wearing the star crown, had managed to escape from w.a.n.g Chong’s attack. Though their organs had been badly hurt, they were still alive.
The men in black again!
w.a.n.g Chong looked around and immediately spotted a black metal sphere in the hands of that Earth Sect Elder.
This metal fretwork sphere was rapidly spinning, spewing out clouds of mist. One could see a metallic core within the sphere that crackled with blue lightning.
w.a.n.g Chong could also sense a familiar energy in this metal sphere: the ripples of the Stellar Energy he had just unleashed.
A portion of the Stellar Energy he had released had probably been absorbed and resisted by that metal sphere.
w.a.n.g Chong was no stranger to this situation. In the feast of all countries, An Lushan had used a similar ritual tool to block his attacks.
It wasn’t very likely that the Earth Sect had a direct connection to the men in black. It was clear that An Lushan had given them this ritual tool.
If even the Earth Sect martial artists had ritual tools from the men in black, then there was no doubt that Yeon Gaesomun…
w.a.n.g Chong turned his head, and, as expected, as the dust and snow settled down, a stalwart figure coughed and stood back up, the sabers on his body clearly identifying the man.
Blood was trickling from the corner of his lip, his eyes were somewhat dim, and his armor was in tatters. This Emperor of Goguryeo was clearly badly wounded, but it was equally clear that he had survived.
w.a.n.g Chong scanned his body and found another metal fretwork sphere, spewing black smoke as it rapidly turned.
It was obvious that his attack had also been blocked by this metal sphere.